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Rory Raven Special user Providence, RI 514 Posts |
I always think of Lovecraft's story, "The Festival" this time of year:
"It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten. Mine were an old people, and were old even when this land was settled three hundred years before. And they were strange, because they had come as dark furtive folk from opiate southern gardens of orchids, and spoken another tongue before they learnt the tongue of the blue-eyed fishers. And now they were scattered, and shared only the rituals of mysteries that none living could understand. I was the only one who came back that night to the old fishing town as legend bade, for only the poor and the lonely remember." Hope all is well with everyone, whatever they do this time of year .... With all good thoughts, Rory
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Cool Yule! May your log burn brightly from both ends and Merry Meet in the middle!
Professor Spellbinder
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fishwasher Inner circle B'ham uk 1231 Posts |
Woooooooo! just unwrapped my copy of hauntiques, I'm settling down for a days/nights reading.
Happy christmas everyone! |
coupcoupdaddy Inner circle 2466 Posts |
Thank you, Rory! Lovecraft makes the strange true heart lublub into longer day.
Lucia
foreign correspondent, z and lt
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